Ms Schaffner is chuffed to announce two of her works being broadcast at the international radio art festival Radiophrenia, starting on April 7, 2025.
BROADCASTS ACROSS GLASGOW ON 87.9FM
24 HOURS A DAY: 7th – 20th April, 2025
RADIOPHRENIA is a radio art collective, festival and art radio station broadcasting intermittently across Glasgow.
The broadcast schedule for our 2025 edition includes a series of newly commissioned radio works, public Live-to-Air performances, live studio shows, long-form works, shorts and pre-recorded features. For this year’s selections we were assisted by guest curator Riah Naief of Listen Gallery. Through our public engagement programme we will be working with four different community groups to realise a new series of sound and radio works. As in previous years the majority of the programme will be made up from selections submitted to an international open call for sound art and radio works.
9 April 2025 10:00 pm – 10:30 pm
1) Kristina Loring – DNA ASMR (3:00)
2) Gabi Schaffner – Horom Radio (6:00)
3) andre birken – 31 monstrous demonstrations – GAUMENFREUDEN 8 (0:27)
4) Sylvain Souklaye – INVISIBLE BODY (RAW NOISE) (10:00)
5) Sarah LeMieux – A Phase Change (6:30)
The ancient city of Horom is set in the southwest of Gyumri in Armenia. The hills are strewn with the remnants of ruins… one might guess that this has been a fundament – or that the color of the grassland had changed with what resided underneath. The air was filled with the drones of jets circling a sky with some clouds. The wind chased wilted thistles across the expanse of the land. We walked among the stones and turned my small radio on.
10 April 2025 11:00 am – 11:30 am
The devastating earthquake on December 6, 1988, destroyed the greatest part of the city of Gyumri in Armenia. With the Mush II District, a whole new living quarter was stomped out of the ground. Sturdy tenement buildings, a school, three supermarkets, a park with a varied fountain, a football arena, playing grounds and small garden patches, either in the yards or bordering on the overgrown meadows.
When stopping by one of those gardens, I was spoken too and afterwards ‘kidnapped’ by two ladies (best friends and gardeners) and taken into the kitchen to drink coffee. English is overestimated as lingua franca once you travel east. I felt discombobulated and difficult. My translator-app worked for Russian only… which created much fun for Gina and Raja. I chose to submit this situation piece because its squeaky ambiguities are so well known to any field recording person/traveler. There is still much to learn.
